Demand for older HDB flats in Singapore spiked in the second quarter this year, following policy updates in May which may have given a “new lease of life” to the overall HDB resale market, OrangeTee & Tie said on Tuesday in its latest quarterly report on HDB trends. Some 564 HDB flats that were 40 years old and above were sold in May-June this year, a 40 per cent surge from 403 units in the year-ago...

A mansion sitting on a sprawling plot of land in Singapore has been sold for a record S$230 million, the latest in a string of eye-catching property deals in the country. The home on Nassim Road was sold by Winright Investment, whose listed shareholders are tycoon Cheng Wai Keung - chairman of developer Wing Tai Holdings, and his wife, according to business and property records reviewed by...

Investors in Singapore's much-loved real estate investment trusts (Reits) may soon have another reason to cheer, as the central bank considers looser debt rules that could spur more acquisitions by property managers. The Monetary Authority of Singapore ended a one-month consultation period on Thursday that looked into increasing the amount of debt that Reits can take on to 50 per cent from 45 per cent...

Flexible space operator JustCo is set to lease a 16-storey building in Seoul's Gangnam business district for its largest location, raising its bets on growing demand for co-working space, while eyeing new markets like Japan, Vietnam and India. Co-working spaces have become popular among startups due to their flexibility of short-term leases in well-decorated spaces in prime locations and keep costs low....

Not many 24-year-old university students live in a S$1.2 million penthouse, kitted out with a Herman Miller Aeron office chair and Lelit espresso machine. Especially not in Singapore, one of the world's most expensive property markets. Shawn, whose loft-style apartment in Singapore's leafy central Bukit Timah region was paid for entirely by his mother, is one of a lucky few. But his ranks are growing as...

Space@Tampines, a joint development by mainboard-listed Oxley Holdings and Lian Beng Group, has been launched for sale via an expression of interest exercise with a guide price ranging from S$170 million to S$190 million, marketing agent CBRE said on Tuesday. Located at 18 Tampines Industrial Crescent, the seven-storey e-commerce and logistics development comprises 24 showroom units, a food court on...

More than 70 per cent of the units at Park Regent – a joint-venture (JV) freehold residential development in Kuala Lumpur by mainboard-listed CapitaLand and Malaysia’s ParkCity Group – have been sold. Homebuyers have snapped up more than 353 of the total 505 units at an average of RM1,100 (S$365) per square foot, as at 6pm on Sunday, after the priority launch weekend. Malaysians made up 80 per...

Commerz Real has sold its 71 Robinson Road property to SV Robinson for S$655 million. SV Robinson is a real estate investment company which is a member the Sun Venture group of companies. The sale was done through its open-ended real estate fund hausInvest, Commerz Real said on Tuesday. Commerz Real was also advised on the sale by CBRE and JLL, with law firm Dentons providing legal consulting, and EY...

JTC on Tuesday launched two sites - one at Tampines for tender, and another at Tuas for application - under the second half of the 2019 Industrial Government Land Sales (IGLS) programme. The launch is part of the government's efforts to offer more choices for industrial development, JTC said. Both sites have a lease tenure of 20 years, and have been zoned "B2" for heavier industrial use. The...

A row of apartments and shops on Phoenix Road near Bukit Panjang has been sold en bloc for S$42.6 million in the property’s second collective sale attempt. The buyer was CNQC Realty (Treasure), a subsidiary of developer Qingjian Realty (South Pacific) Group, according to marketing agent Colliers International on Monday evening. The sale price is above the owners’ asking price of S$42 million, and...